Making Money With Email Lists - My 40k/Month Strategy

Hey everyone,
I have found a lot of cool things on here and have been using them, but now I would like to give back. I found this method where you create an email list and then use that to market(I'm not the first one to use it but it could be helpful to some people). Basically what you are doing is buying solo ads, sending people to a squeeze page and getting them to opt-in to your auto responder, where you can send them cool products. It might sound complicated, but keep reading and it will get cleared up a bit. First I will just give some definitions.

Squeeze page - This is a webpage that’s entirely dedicated to capturing a visitor’s name and e-mail address. This is what allows direct response marketers to build a list on the Internet … develop a relationship with that list … and then sell products and services to the prospects on that list.Auto Responder - Automated programs which are established to return a prewritten message upon receipt of e-mail. Program will grab the return address from the “header” of the message. Typically, these programs will send out the canned message within seconds of receipt.

SLO - Self-Liquidating offer. Pretty much means however much you spend on solo ads, you will have this offer on the other end, making almost all if not more of your money back (usually more, but we'll get into this later)

Conversions - People who Opt-in to your email list. Basically the higher the conversion rate, the better your squeeze page is and the more sales that you make. You want to have a high converting squeeze page.So now that you know the basic terminology, we can get started. I will try to be as thorough as possibly.

The Whole Idea : You want to build the biggest list possible. On average, per month, for every subscriber on your list you would make $1. If you have 100,000 people on your list, and you send out an email promoting a product where you make $50 per sale and only 2% bought it, you would make $100,000. From sending 1 email. Now obviously this is rare, but if you send emails every day, you can easily make $40,000 a month from this method alone. Now to the prices of solo ads. You can buy a click for about $0.35 on average, so say you have 25$ to start. You can buy about 71 clicks. From those 71 clicks, 28 Opt-in. They are then sent to your SLO and 2 people buy it. You will make all of your money back and more. That's an average 28$ a month just from 1 ad, and you have your money back from the SLO. Now lets say you buy some every week adding 25$ each time, but including the money you previously made. The nest week, you send out 142 ads. 56 Opt-in, and 3 sales. You made the money back plus 58 subscribers. Now you are making around 80$-90$/month. Within just 3 months, you would have about 2,500 people, and thus around 2500$/month. At 6 months, 10,000 opt-ins, 10k a month, and at just 1 year, 40k people and 40k a month. Just remember we are talking about average statistics. So could be more and some could be less; nothing is guaranteed, but it is likely you will have similar results. Some people say the money is in the list, but really the money is in your relationship with the list, so be as nice as possible and build a character that is easy to relate to. Now lets get down to business.

Step 1 : You want to find a good product to promote. Since this doesn't require SEO (Unless you want to get more Opt-ins by using this method with SEO...) You should choose one with a high gravity. I go to CBengine to find products. Find one with a high gravity and go check it out. If it looks nice and professional, choose it. I recommend going on YouTube and looking for a review and what you will learn when someone buys this. Write down/type a few key points. You will need this for step 2.:

Step 2 : Time to make a squeeze page. I use 90secondsqueezepage.com which is one of Russell Brunsons products. It is completely free to use and it makes unique, high-converting squeeze pages. It basically makes it look nice. What you want to do here is either make a video explaining what you get and why you should buy this product, or you can just put bullet points (it automatically makes the bullets into green check marks which will increase conversions.) Then you will need an auto responder to make a opt-in form. I will talk about this in the next step.Step 3 : Now you need an auto responder. The best one out there is Aweber. Everything with it is the best, including customer service. It is 1$ for the first month, but if you want a free one for the first month, go with GetResponse. I highly recommend going with Aweber though, because it is hard to transfer your list later. You want to set up your web form (with the thank you page being the offer you are promoting) and get the html code from it. Then paste the web form html code in the squeeze page (there is a box in the setup that requires this, you can't miss it). I won't go to much in depth on this because you can look it up on YouTube. You need to set up your follow up messages too. You can see how to do this on YouTube (its VERY hard to explain without a video, so try to find one there). You should have about 14 emails ready to send out through out the next month. After that month, you will have a very good relationship with your list. You can now send out broadcasts and products that you are promoting. Soft sell them. Also, always cloak your links. you can look up how to do this on YouTube (who would have guessed :P). NOTE: I can't stress how important it is that you test all of this (With respect to making sure they are being send through your affiliate link and everything. You don't want to be sending 1000 clicks through the offer and not your affiliate link). Once that is done, you want to start sending traffic, which brings us to step 4.

Step 4 : There are a lot of solo ad providers. I only go with ones that have good reviews. You usually can find this with Reed Floren's reviews (soloaddirectory.com). You can read more about solo ads there. You can usually get about 100 clicks for 40$. Remember, this is HIGH quality traffic. I just recommend staying away from Bilaal Hussain, he doesn't deliver as promised. Everyone else seems good though. Some you will need to write a swipe for, other will do it for you. A swipe is just an email for the advertiser to send to his/her list. Just write something that you think will convert well... Mini pre-selling sort of. Just make sure to start small, with the lowest offer they have, and if it works for you, then move up to the bigger ones.

Step 5 : Make sure you are consistent. Always check to see how many opt-ins you have and how many sales, and always cloak and track your links. Build a good relationship with your list and you will be successful.

I hope that this helped some of you out. I would like to thank Tristam for making good music that I can listen to while making threads like this. I would also like to thank all you blackhatters for sharing your methods

And as a great man once said, "One other thing. I'm non-violent by nature...BUT...I see one of you idiotsrehashing this into an ebook and selling it on, and I WILL hunt you down and make you sorry you ever read my threads, LOL Let's stick to sharing, and helping, for FREE - ok?"

If you need any help, just comment and I will help. I'm gonna go parkour now. Thanks for reading!

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thanks for sharing. i would guess that it is important to only send offers which are relevant to your list to prevent unsubscribes. i have tried buying lists, what a waste of money. this way seems much better.

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Originally Posted by EvilEmperor

thanks for sharing. i would guess that it is important to only send offers which are relevant to your list to prevent unsubscribes. i have tried buying lists, what a waste of money. this way seems much better.

Yea you need to build a very good relationship with your list and keep it niche targeted. I find that the IM niche does very well because with this method, you don't have any competition. Good Luck!

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Sound so easy I'm tempted to try it sometime soon. Excellent job on the write up, op, thanx and repped.
Just curious, are you making the 40k/mo like the thread title says?

Personally, no... but I know many people who are using this method and making way more than 40k a month. I am about 1 and a half months into this and am seeing very similar results. The bit on opt-ins/months wasn't made up by me, that is just statistics wise.

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go on...
You dont mean SEO and FB/twitter stuff do you? I would search bhw, but they dont have an email section.. (i kinda know the reason)

To OP, great guide, I like the idea of list building. Have you experienced solo ads before? I know you are reading the reviews, but im always afraid that they might be greased. I guess if you are buying from them you are sticking in the IM niche?

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Originally Posted by Nuklearedm

What do you mean by that?

like the monthly cost of this project. so besides hosting and aweber, are there any additional cost that you will have to pay? Like keep buying solo ads monthly to build your list or graphic design..
Ok, here is a good one: how much will you keep investing into soloads to the point where you will stop buying from them and just push your existing opt-in's?

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Originally Posted by jinsandy

like the monthly cost of this project. so besides hosting and aweber, are there any additional cost that you will have to pay? Like keep buying solo ads monthly to build your list or graphic design..
Ok, here is a good one: how much will you keep investing into soloads to the point where you will stop buying from them and just push your existing opt-in's?

You don't need to pay for hosting, just aweber and solo ads. As to when I would stop buying Solo ads... Never. You can spend up to 30 grand a month once you have enough and keep increasing to the point that your making millions a year.

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This is a great guide. I've plan as your thread in a few weeks ago, but not with solo ads. Instead solo ads, I'm using ppv traffics such us *******, and now the ad is running. What do you think?

I would stay away from ******* because you will get a lot of opt-ins but not quality ones. You will have about a 99.9% chance of not making a sale... My advice, stay away from *******... what you can do though, like some one else suggested is buy 750$ worth of adwords vouchers and use that... you will be getting targeted traffic.

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Originally Posted by timpears

How often can you send offers to your list before you are a pest?

Thanks for your post OP.

I would say every other day for about a month or 2 weeks and then send a "new cool product" every couple of days... maybe about once a week. Thats why it helps to have multiple lists. You can be making money every day.

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Originally Posted by jinsandy

Good stuff. Just a quick question, what are your recurring fix cost moving forward?

thanks for the guide, its really eye opening.

As your list grows so, will the cost of emailing because they charge by the size of your list. Also you need to provide a physical mailing address to abide by the Can-Spam act, so if you are renting a P.0. box instead of adding the address you are living at presently (who would want to do that?) it will cost you a sum every month as well.

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Originally Posted by BENNY8877

As your list grows so, will the cost of emailing because they charge by the size of your list. Also you need to provide a physical mailing address to abide by the Can-Spam act, so if you are renting a P.0. box instead of adding the address you are living at presently (who would want to do that?) it will cost you a sum every month as well.

I don't think the aweber cost goes up does it? It hasn't for me and I have around 2,000 leads.

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Nice interesting read would love to get into this. Any tips/courses you can recommend for making nice emails that don't sound like. Oh hi buy this course and quit your job lolz.

You can search google for autoresponder follow up messages and then modify the ones you find to your liking. They give you good formats and the right time to do things like tell them your story and stuff. It basically lets you get the best out of your list if you can find a good follow up format.